Voltaire — To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Israel: The son of a prominent rabbi used a racial slur to attack the government for not earmarking enough money for religious institutions

“If we’re talking about the sports budget, there is plenty of money to bring a few Cushim to play basketball, but when its a budget for synagogues or ritual baths, there’s nothing,” Rabbi David Yosef said, employing a Hebrew epithet for black people that is the local equivalent of the “n-word.” Yosef, the son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, made his remarks at a ceremony marking the opening of an large new ritual bath, or mikvah, in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood. David Yosef is the official rabbi of the mostly ultra-Orthodox neighborhood on the capital’s western edge.